The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

Louisville, KY. ON the oath were ~ follows:
The first prize, 5000 the Montgomery
Grays; second, 81, 200, the Louisville Light
Infantry; third, $3.50, the Montgomery True
Blues.
LARRr DONOVAN, the jumper, was pre-
vented by the police from jumping on the
Clifton (Eng) suspension bridge on the
2lst
LORD HARRINGTON, the British Liberal
Uniouist, is opposed to limiting the Crimes
oct to three years.
QUEEN vICToRIA's jubilee day, June q,
passed Oh in London without any remarka-
BILE incident The scene at Westminster
Abbey and the procession through the
streets were very brilliant.
F. w. KIRKLAND, editor of the Winnipeg
SUtings, weekly devoted to society news,
was arrested recently at the instance OF
Hugh Macdonald, son of Sir John A. Mac
donald, Premier of Canada, on the charge OF
criminally libeling his wife.
Or the persons charged with being i'm
plicated in the murder Of Colonel SOudekin,
chief of the Russian police, who was assas-
sinated in 1883, seven have been sentenced
to death and fourteen to Siberia
RUMoRs were recently current that King
Milan, of Servia, was about to abdicatc.
STEPHEN PEERE, shoemaker residing on
the Canadian side of the Niagara river,
crossed the river at the Suspension Bridge
recently, walking upon five-eighths inch
wire cable.
TIE crops of Asia Minor are in very bad
condition, and panic is threatened. The
Sultan will take steps to give relief.
THE Russian and French ambassadors to
Turkey have addressed q threatening note
to the Sultan against the Egyptian conven-
ton.
AMONG the jubilee presents received by
Queen Victoria was one Of 915OO0 for
monument, subscribed by 5000 900 women.
Her Majesty accepted this and graciOusly
thanked the donors.
ADvICKs from Vancouver, B. C., are that
the British corvette Conquest will start
for Honolulu, having received secret orders
from the Foreign Office in London.
THE British brigantine Aldwyth is re-
ported missing. She had previously been
in collision with q steamer of Maryland.
BIZ means of q counterfeit ticket the
Royal Havana Lottery was n Gently beaten
out Of 5000.
The elections in Bavaria have not mate
rally changed the status of parties.
THE British Cabinet proposes toprorOgue
Parliament about August Ii.
KING OTTO of Bavaria has been officially
declared insane.
FURTHER reports Of political conspiracies
were prevalent in Bulgaria on the 23d.
A FIREMAN and q girl were killed and
much havoc created by an explosion at an
extensive chemical works in Manchester,
Eng, recently.
FRANK HUGH O'DoNNELL, formerly MEM
Der OF Parliament for Dungarvon and ex-
vice president of the Home Rule Confedera-
ton, has brought suit against the London
Times for libel
BIZ the wrecking OF atrain on the Hawkes.
bury railway in New South Wales, on the
sd, seven persons were killed and forty
others injured. The account was caused BY
the failure of the brakes to work while the
train was going down an incline.
THE Afghan situation has improved. &C
cording to Simla reports, the road between
Cabul and Candahar has been reopened,
the rebels are dispirited, and there is every
prospect that the rebellion will soon col.
lapse.
The Paris Journal des De6ats denies that
France and Russia have threatened Turkey
with war if the Sultan signs the Egyptian
convention.
In consequence of the action Of the mayor
Of Cork in hosting black flag on the occa.
sion of the jubilee, and because Of his hav'
ing shown favor to Nationalists, Plunkett,
the divisional magistrate, has superseded
| him and ordered that only the residen,
paid magistrate try prisoners.
AT Valparaiso, Chilli, to May 1, $50 cases
of cholera had occurred. or this number
Cos died. In Quillote 1859 cases had oc
Cured and 1902 deaths.
Mems PERsIco and Gualdi have left Rome
for ireland on the mission entrusted them
by the Pope They are instructed to make
personal observations and report on the
political and social position Of the Irish
people.
1T is officially denied in the City of Mex
leo that cabinet crisis exists or is to be
feared.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) during
the seven days ended June @ numbered fol
the United States III: for Canada, ID; total
1877, as compared with 2lS the previous week
and 1872 the corresponding week of last year
JOSEPH BROTHERS, jewelers. of Blrming
ham and Leeds, England, and Canada, have
| failed with S260, 600 liabilities and small as.
sets.
THE LATEST.
The Chicago Packing and Provision Com
| pany's premises were burned early on the
morning Of the 18th. The loss was put at
the immense sum OF s2,0OO,OO0. One thou
sand hands were thrown out Of work. A
fireman was killed during the confagra
ton.
POPE LEO was energeticaliy denounced
BY the Anti-Poverty Society for his threat
ened accommodation Of DR.. McGlynn al
New York on the o6th.
| Four lives were lost in tenement house
fire in oxford street, London, on the 18th
| A DISPATCH from Key West, OF the Goth,
says: There have been four new cases OF